The question, “How much room does a chicken need to lay eggs?” sounds like the start of a bad joke. Animal rights activists and Connecticut’s big-time commercial egg farmers don’t think there’s ...

It’d be difficult for Gene Gregory’s defense of battery-cage egg production to be more misleading in Monday’s guest column “Battery cages are good for chickens.” Gregory’s assertions are false or ...

Robert Procaccianti is a Narragansett resident and vice chair of the board of directors of Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization. Lawmakers took a big step back this year ...

Egg production farming is a lucrative business in Kenya. The industry has a population of 5.58 million commercial laying flocks producing about 1.6 billion eggs annually, according to the 2019 census ...

When consumers picture farms, oftentimes our thoughts go to idyllic open fields with cows grazing, chickens foraging and pigs rolling around in the mud to cool off. Even if we do picture farms that ...

In the European Union, hens can no longer be kept in tiny battery cages that pack them so tightly they could not walk or flap their wings. The EU voted to ban the cages in 1999 but gave the poultry ...

There are more egg-laying chickens in the U.S. than there are people. Until recently, almost all of those hens have lived in so-called battery cages, which provide each chicken with a floor space ...

Mr John Njuguna the director of Renray Poultry Solutions collecting eggs in his farm located in Ruiru, Kiambu County.[FILE,Standard] Most poultry farmers in Kenya are practising the deep-litter system ...

Thursday to support national legislation moving hens out of traditional battery cages within 18 years, abruptly halting cage-free campaigns in Oregon and Washington. , said was reached because both ...

This column is in response to Karen Davis’ Dec. 8 letter to the editor and to Jason Ketola’s Dec. 6 column “See the horrors of battery cages.” United Egg Producers is concerned that the information ...

Next month, all of California’s 15 million egg-laying hens must be freed from the cramped, restrictive battery cages that have long been used on most egg farms. In the future, they will have enough ...

Egg Industry magazine predicted that 2015 will be “the year of the lawsuit” in the U.S. egg industry — and it was referring specifically to California. But the court battles have already begun. On Feb ...